Gluten-free diet and diabetes
wellth wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Laboratory mice given a gluten-free diet from birth had a significantly lower incidence of diabetes mellitus than did mice given the traditional diet. The mice on the gluten-free diet who developed diabetes did so at a significantly later time than those on the standard diet.
Populations such as Korea and Japan, who use a traditional diet lower in gluten have reduced diabetes incidence rates.
These researchers feel that a gluten-free diet may have implications for the prevention of diabetes mellitus. (Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews 15:323-327, 1999)
Copyright 1999 Phylis A Austin
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